QuillstoneA House on Barnawa CloseMusa Ibrahim Kure
Novel, 2026
A House on Barnawa Close
Musa Ibrahim Kure
A retired railway clerk, a lodger with secrets and one long rainy season in a Kaduna compound.
N9,000
QuillstoneIndigo at Kofar MataHauwa Bello Danladi
Catalogue / Novel
Indigo at Kofar Mata
Three generations of women at the old dye pits, a debt that will not stay buried, and a daughter who wants out.
N8,500
The story
About the book
In the old city of Kano, the dye pits at Kofar Mata have been worked by the same families for centuries. Amina is the first girl in hers who wants nothing to do with them. When her grandmother dies owing money to the wrong man, Amina has one dyeing season to clear the debt, and to decide whether leaving is the same as escaping.
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- Format
- Paperback, sewn binding
- Pages
- 312
- Published
- March 2026
- Size
- 138 x 216 mm
- ISBN
- 978-000-312-26-0 (example)
- Price
- N8,500
The first pages
The water in the pit was the colour of a bruise that had not decided whether to heal. Amina's grandmother said you could read a family's fortune in it, if you knew how to look. Amina had decided long ago that she did not want to know how to look.
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In the reading room
Readers on this book
I read it in two sittings and then made my sister read it so I had someone to talk to.
Quiet, precise and devastating in the last forty pages.
Questions
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